Ottaviano Del Turco
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Ottaviano Del Turco | |
|---|---|
 Del Turco in 2001 | |
| President of Abruzzo | |
| In office 22 April 2005 – 13 July 2008 | |
| Preceded by | Giovanni Pace |
| Succeeded by | Giovanni Chiodi |
| Minister of Finance | |
| In office 26 April 2000 – 11 June 2001 | |
| Prime Minister | Giuliano Amato |
| Preceded by | Vincenzo Visco |
| Succeeded by | Giulio Tremonti (Economy and Finance) |
| Member of the European Parliament | |
| In office 20 July 2004 – 1 May 2005 | |
| Constituency | Southern Italy |
| Member of the Senate of the Republic | |
| In office 9 May 1996 – 19 July 2004 | |
| Constituency | Tuscany (1996–2001) Abruzzo (2001–2004) |
| Member of the Chamber of Deputies | |
| In office 15 April 1994 – 8 May 1996 | |
| Constituency | San Lazzaro di Savena |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 7 November 1944 |
| Died | 22 August 2024 (aged 79) Collelongo, Italy |
| Party | PSI (till 1994) SI (1994–1998) SDI (1998–2007) PD (2007–2024) |
| Profession | Trade unionist |
Ottaviano Del Turco (7 November 1944 – 22 August 2024) was an Italian politician.
Early life
Del Turco was born in Collelongo on 7 November 1944.[1]
Career
After a career in trade unionism in the Italian General Confederation of Labour (CGIL), Del Turco rose to the top of Bettino Craxi's Italian Socialist Party (PSI) before it was swept away in the Tangentopoli scandals of 1992–94. Del Turco was the president of the Antimafia Commission from December 1996 to May 2000. He was Minister of Finance in the cabinet led by the then prime minister Giuliano Amato from 2000 to 2001.[2]
He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004 on the Italian Democratic Socialists (SDI) ticket and sat with the Party of European Socialists group. On 20 July 2004, he was elected chair of the committee on employment and social affairs at the parliament.[3]
On 4 April 2005, he won the election as president of his native Abruzzo as candidate for centre-left coalition The Union,[4] and on 1 May resigned his seat in the European Parliament to take up this post. In 2007, he founded the Reformist Alliance (Italian: Alleanza Riformista) movement within the SDI,[5][6] with which he left the SDI and became a member of the Democratic Party (Partito Democratico, PD) at the PD's founding congress on 14 October 2007.[7] He was a member of the 45-strong national council. On 16 July 2008, he resigned as President of Abruzzo,[8] and left the national council of the PD.
Death
Del Turco died in Collelongo on 22 August 2024, at the age of 79.[9]
